I just hope you can help him out in front of the Green Dragon Gang, so that the other side knows that he has such a good person like you to protect him and dare not do anything to him, I really can’t imagine that he can make such a big mess! I’m afraid the new head of the cardiology department is out of the question for Zichen.”
I was surprised that Zhao Gongluan didn’t know Zhao Zichen’s true identity.
What surprised me even more was that Zhao Gongluan actually said that Zhao Zichen wouldn’t fight, how much he, as a father, misunderstood his son.
“This gang is here today to ruin Zichen’s reputation. Haven’t you noticed, they’re not in a hurry to find Zichen, they’re just bent on causing havoc.”
“That’s true, it’s a good thing they suddenly left today, otherwise I wouldn’t have known how to end it. I still have to thank you Xiao Zhang for what happened today, Xiao Chao, you won’t blame uncle, will you?”
I wasn’t paying attention to what Zhao Gongluan was saying, my attention was completely drawn to another matter.
Huang Mao hadn’t suddenly left, but had only rushed back for support when Long Long Street had been robbed by the Red Lantern Club.
The Red Lantern Society wouldn’t have done it without Zhao Zichen’s order, which was actually still Zhao Zichen’s doing.
Huang Mao had just left Changlong Street with his men on the first foot, and the Red Lantern Club robbed Changlong Street on the second. And he had greeted the police station in the district, and during this period, the police station did not have to pay attention to any police report, nor did they have to send out police officers. He did not expect that instead, he had done the dowry for the Red Lantern Club, resulting in the police not sending out police officers at all when Long Long Street was robbed.
It seems like a coincidence, but when you think about it, all these things are not coincidental, but rather like a careful arrangement by Zhao Zichen.
If it was really an arrangement, then this man was too clever.
I couldn’t help but shiver, when Zhao Gongluan asked again, “Xiaochao, you won’t blame uncle, will you?”
I came back to my senses: “You would have done this even if I hadn’t blamed you. You have such a smart son, I don’t believe your intelligence is any lower. Uncle Zhao, let me be straight with you, I want to know about Jiang Ming, you tell me, but not Uncle Han.”
It’s better to talk to smart people with less detours; more detours will only wind me up myself.
Zhao Gongluan’s face changed, “What exactly do you want by asking Jiang Ming?”
“I’ll be straight with you. I suspect that my father’s death has something to do with Jiang Ming.”
After I said this, Zhao Gongluan stood up, and his gold-rimmed gla*ses slid straight down to the tip of his nose because he was too excited.
He glared at me fiercely, startling me. It wasn’t that I was afraid he would hit me, I just couldn’t understand why he was suddenly angry.
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“Do you smoke?”
Zhao Gongluan tossed one to me, I picked it up and sniffed it, asking, “Uncle Zhao, I guessed right did I, my father’s death really has something to do with Jiang Ming.”
He said, “BullSh*t.”
“Look at this cigarette of yours, it’s all damp and a bit mouldy. It’s a good cigarette, I can’t believe you’ve stored it like this, you’ve quit smoking for a long time. If I hadn’t hit the nail on the head with that comment just now, how could it make you anxious enough to go back to smoking. I’m telling you this just to tell you that I was a scout for five years, you can’t fool me. I helped Zhao Zichen once, it’s time for you to help me too.”
Zhao Gongluan was helpless, and gave the cigarette another tear bar and stuffed it into the ashtray.
“I don’t know.” Zhao Gongluan said, “Xiaochao, I’m telling the truth, none of us know.”
“What do you mean?”
“What you’re thinking, Han Kun and I have both had. Your dad died very suddenly, and the traffic police brigade gave a report of your dad’s drink driving. But we’ve known your dad for so many years and we both know that your dad doesn’t drink a drop, there’s no way he could have been drink driving.”
The hand I had on my knee squeezed into a fist as hard as I could to keep it calm, and I nodded.
“So after he left, Han Kun and I both felt that something wasn’t right and went to the traffic police brigade to ask to see the autopsy report.”
“What did the report say?” I asked hastily.
The general practice report would not be falsified, because closing a case is the business of the chief of the criminal police brigade, but the autopsy report is the business of the chief of forensic medicine, and the two departments are independent in terms of rank, and the forensic doctor does not have to be under the control of the criminal police brigade.
The two departments are independent from each other in terms of level, and the forensic pathologist is not subject to the control of the criminal police force.
Zhao Gongluan let out a long sigh, “No.”
“Nothing at all? That can’t be right.”
“No, it just isn’t. There was no practice report. When Han Kun and I received the news, the traffic police brigade had already taken the liberty of sending your parents’ bodies for cremation, and when we rushed over, we only received two handfuls of ashes. Later we asked to see the file. The reply given out there by the traffic police brigade turned out to be that the dossier was lost ……”
This time it was my turn to be dumbfounded.
A normal traffic accident case, do you need to make it so complicated?
When I was a child, I always regretted that I did not get to see the last of my parents, but I never thought that this regret would be man-made.
Zhao Gongluan said, his eyes red, his voice a little choked: “If it really was a DUI, why the rush to burn the body? This is so wrong.”
I swallowed, feeling a dry pain in my throat like it was on fire.
Bewildered, I asked, “And then what happened?”
“Later, I wanted to investigate the matter. The first person Han Kun and I suspected was Jiang Ming. Back then, your father and Jiang Ming did not get along, and your mother turned out to be Jiang Ming’s fiancée, who was snatched by your father as his wife. He was so proud of himself that he said he would make your father pay for it. After the two of them formed a feud, they would fight each other whenever they saw each other. At first, your father was at a disadvantage, but later, when your parents went into business together, they became better and better, and Jiang Ming could not take advantage of them anymore. Until your dad died, Jiang Ming didn’t know what kind of bad luck he had, he was ostracised in the gang and beaten up by his own old man, especially unlucky.”
I said, “So you suspect that Jiang Ming got angry and set out to kill my dad?”
Such a thing was quite possible.
The two of us, Chen Yu Zhou and I, had no actual animosity at all that could have developed into the unholy stance we were in.
My dad really stole Jiang Ming’s fiancée and took away his love, not to mention that he gave him a direct slap in the face.
“Han Kun and I thought the same thing, and the two of us wanted to start an investigation. However, at that time I was just an ordinary small doctor, and Han Kun was also doing very average. Without your father to lead us, we were limited in our abilities. We investigated everywhere, but I never gave up my determination to avenge your father’s death.”
I didn’t appreciate it and said, “Now it seems that you have given up.”
Zhao Gongluan said excitedly, “It’s not me! It’s Han Kun! I’ve been investigating your father. I’m sure that a copy of the dossier is lying around somewhere, and I’ve been looking for every way to find it. But one day, Han Kun suddenly called me and said that we couldn’t investigate any further, and that we couldn’t even afford the results of any further investigation.”
